Two Albums Played Front to Back on South Broadway

Playing a record in sequence puts the deep cuts back where the band wrote them, and the pacing stops following a hits arc. Bringing Down the Horse turns thirty this year and runs about fifty minutes. The Tom Petty record follows in full rather than as a handful of covers. Album order means the quiet tracks land mid-set instead of getting cut. Anyone who only knows one single will hear the other eleven. Support opens the night before either record begins.

The Orpheum opened on South Broadway in 1926 and kept its gilt plasterwork, chandeliers and the original Wurlitzer. The lobby bar runs along a wall of framed portraits under blue light. Two thousand seats sit close enough that the balcony still reads faces on stage. Broadway outside is a strip of surviving movie palaces. Doors open an hour before the support act. Concessions sit off the main lobby and the queues clear before the lights drop. Seats are assigned rather than general admission.

The show plays Tuesday, October 13 at eight in the evening at 842 South Broadway. Metro B and D lines stop at Pershing Square, four blocks north. Broadway garages fill on show nights and the lots east of Hill run cheaper. Bag checks at the door add a few minutes. Anyone hoping for a career-spanning set should know this night belongs to two specific records. Tuesday houses here tend to move faster than weekend ones.